knoll

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nəʊl/, [nəʊl], [nɒʊl]
• (General American) enPR: nōl, IPA^(key): /noʊl/

From Old English cnoll (“summit”). Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).

knoll (plural knolls)

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

Imitative, or variant of knell.

knoll (plural knolls)

1. A knell.

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. To sound, like a bell; to knell.
   • Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114

   If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.

   • Byron

     For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.

   • Tennyson

     Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

knoll (preterite knollä)

1. (transitive) roll together: make curly

• knóllär